Parallel Verses
A Conservative Version
Open thy doors, O Lebanon, that the fire may devour thy cedars.
New American Standard Bible
Open your doors, O Lebanon,
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King James Version
Open thy doors, O Lebanon, that the fire may devour thy cedars.
Holman Bible
and fire will consume your cedars.
International Standard Version
Open your doors, Lebanon, and fire will consume your cedars.
American Standard Version
Open thy doors, O Lebanon, that the fire may devour thy cedars.
Amplified
That fire may devour your cedars.
Bible in Basic English
Let your doors be open, O Lebanon, so that fire may be burning among your cedars.
Darby Translation
Open thy doors, O Lebanon, that the fire may devour thy cedars.
Julia Smith Translation
Open the doors, O Lebanon, and fire shall devour among thy cedars.
King James 2000
Open your doors, O Lebanon, that the fire may devour your cedars.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Open your doors, Lebanon, so that fire will devour your cedars!
Modern King James verseion
Open your doors, O Lebanon, so that the fire may devour your cedars.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Open thy doors, O Lebanon, that the fire may consume thy cedar trees.
NET Bible
Open your gates, Lebanon, so that the fire may consume your cedars.
New Heart English Bible
Open your doors, Lebanon, that the fire may devour your cedars.
The Emphasized Bible
Open, O Lebanon, thy doors, - that a fire, may devour, thy cedar,
Webster
Open thy doors, O Lebanon, that the fire may devour thy cedars.
World English Bible
Open your doors, Lebanon, that the fire may devour your cedars.
Youngs Literal Translation
Open, O Lebanon, thy doors, And fire doth devour among thy cedars.
Interlinear
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Zechariah 11:1
Verse Info
Context Readings
Israel's Shepherds: Good And Bad
1 Open thy doors, O Lebanon, that the fire may devour thy cedars. 2 Wail, O fir tree, for the cedar is fallen, because the fine ones are destroyed. Wail, O ye oaks of Bashan, for the strong forest has come down.
Names
Cross References
Jeremiah 22:6-7
For thus says LORD concerning the house of the king of Judah: Thou are Gilead to me, [and] the head of Lebanon, [yet] surely I will make thee a wilderness, cities which are not inhabited.
Deuteronomy 32:22
For a fire is kindled in my anger, and burns to the lowest Sheol, and devours the earth with its increase, and sets on fire the foundations of the mountains.
Jeremiah 22:23
O inhabitant of Lebanon, who makes thy nest in the cedars, how greatly to be pitied thou shall be when pangs come upon thee, the pain as of a woman in travail!
Ezekiel 31:3
Behold, the Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon with fair branches, and with a forest-like shade, and of high stature, and its top was among the thick boughs.
Habakkuk 2:8
Because thou have plundered many nations, all the remnant of the peoples shall plunder thee, because of men's blood, and for the violence done to the land, to the city and to all who dwell therein.
Habakkuk 2:17
For the violence done to Lebanon shall cover thee and the plunder of the beasts ([which] made them afraid), because of men's blood, and for the violence done to the land, to the city and to all who dwell therein.
Haggai 1:8
Go up to the mountain, and bring wood, and build the house. And I will take pleasure in it, and I will be glorified, says LORD.
Zechariah 10:10
I will also bring them again out of the land of Egypt, and gather them out of Assyria. And I will bring them into the land of Gilead and Lebanon, and [until space] shall not be found for them.
Zechariah 14:1-2
Behold, a day of LORD comes when thy spoil shall be divided in the midst of thee.
Matthew 24:1-2
And when Jesus departed he was going from the temple. And his disciples came near to exhibit to him the buildings of the temple.
Luke 19:41-44
And when he came near, having seen the city, he wept over it,
Luke 21:23-24
But woe to those who have in the womb, and to those who suckle in those days. For there will be great distress upon the land, and wrath to this people.